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David Curtis Wright Curriculum Vitae

Department of History Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW

Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4 CANADA (403) 220-6408

wrightd@ucalgary.ca Present University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta

Associate Professor of History, specialising in imperial Chinese and Mongolian history and Taiwan history

EDUCATION 1993 Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

Ph.D. in East Asian Studies.Major field: Chinese history, Sung (A.D. 960-1279), Liao (A.D. 907-1120), Jin (A.D. 1115-1234), and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties. Professors: Denis Twitchett and Yü Ying-shih. Minor field: Mongolian history, thirteenth through twentieth centuries. Professor: Thomas Allsen (Trenton State College). Minor field: Qing China (1644-1912). Professor: Yü Ying-shih.

1991-1992 Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

Exchange Scholar from Princeton, visiting Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations for the 1991-1992 academic year. Classical Mongolian language study and dissertation research. Professor: Elizabeth Endicott-West.

1990 Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

M.A. in East Asian Studies, with emphasis on Chinese and East Asian history. Passed Ph.D. requirement for reading proficiency in German.

1988 Middlebury College Language School Middlebury, Vermont

Studied Japanese intensively during the School’s nine-week summer session.

2 1979-1987 Brigham Young University Provo, Utah

Graduated magna cum laude with baccalaureate degrees in History (emphasis on modern China) and in Chinese language. Valedictorian, Department of History, 1987. Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key national honour societies.

1984-1985 Stanford Chinese Language Center Taipei, Taiwan

Attended on full-tuition award the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan, administered by Stanford University. Areas of emphasis included primary Chinese-language historical documents and Chinese narrative literature.

SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY Books and monographs 2011 The Dragon Eyes the Top of the World: Arctic Policy Debate and Discussion in

China (China Maritime Study Number 8). Newport, Rhode Island: United States Naval War College Press. ISBN 978-1-884733-94-9. Viewable online at http://www.usnwc.edu/Research---Gaming/China-Maritime-Studies-Institute/Publications/documents/China-Maritime-Study-8_The-Dragon-Eyes-the-Top-of-.pdf

2011 The History of China, Second Edition (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern

Nations). Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. ISBN 978-0-313-37748-8. 2005 From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign

Relations with Kitan Liao. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004144569. 2001 The History of China (The Greenwood histories of the Modern Nations). Westport,

Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 031330940X 1998 The Ambassadors' Records: Eleventh-Century Reports of Sung Embassies to the

Liao. Papers on Inner Asia, No. 29. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies.

Compiled and edited volumes 2017 From Province to Republic to Colony: The James Wheeler Davidson Collection on

the Origins and Early Development of Japanese Rule in Taiwan, 1895-1905. Compiled, annotated, transcribed, translated, and edited, and with historical essays,

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by David Curtis Wright and Lin Hsin-yi. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. Joint bilingual (Chinese and English) publication between the Institute for Taiwan History, Academia Sinica in Taiwan and the University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-986-05-3164-0 .

2001 David B. Honey and David C. Wright, eds., Altaic Affinities: Proceedings of the

40th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies.

Academic articles 2018 “’Eyes as Bright as Snow’: Facial Recognition Technology and Social Control in

China.” Canadian Global Affairs Institute 12 June 2018. https://www.cgai.ca/eyes_as_bright_as_snow_facial_recognition_technology_and_social_control_in_china (Accessed 12 June 2018)

2018 “The Burden of History and its Bearing on China’s Geopolitical Present and Future:

Two Incomplete Views. (review article).” Review of Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? and Howard W. French, Everything Under the Heavens: How The Past Helps Shape China’s Quest for Global Power. In Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 18.3 (2018):138-57. http://jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/773/710 (Accessed 8 May 2018)

2017 “The Jindandao Pogrom Against Mongols in Inner Mongolia, 1891.” In Mongol

Sudlal ba Togtvortoii Xôgzhil II (МОНГОЛ СУДЛАЛ БА ТОГТВОРТОЙ ХΘГЖИП II) (Ulaanbaatar), 303-09. (ISBN 978-99978-931-1-6)

2017 “James Wheeler Davidson’s Asia years: Origins and development.” In David Curtis

WRIGHT and Hsin-yi LIN, From Province to Republic to Colony: The James Wheeler Davidson Collection on the Origins and Early Development of Japanese Rule in Taiwan, 1895-1905” (Taipei and Calgary: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica and the University of Calgary Press), 67-80.

2017 “Marching with the Japanese Under a Formosa Sun: James Wheeler Davidson’s

War Diary, June-July 1895.” In David Curtis WRIGHT and Hsin-yi LIN, From Province to Republic to Colony: The James Wheeler Davidson Collection on the Origins and Early Development of Japanese Rule in Taiwan, 1895-1905” (Taipei and Calgary: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica and the University of Calgary Press), 89-95 and 118-43.

2016 “Genghis Khan.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, ed. Dennis

Showalter.

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http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0154.xml#obo-9780199791279-0154-div1-0003

2015 “Food over Symbolism: Sedentary Guests at Kitan and Mongol Feasts,” in Alicia

Campi, Anniversaries, Feasts, and Celebrations in the Altaic World (Bloomington, Indiana: The Mongolia Society, 2015): 227-37.

2015 “A History of the Sung Military” (scholarly translation). In John Chaffee and Denis

Twitchett, eds., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 5, Part Two: Sung China, 960-1279 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015): 214-49.

2015 “Afloat, Afoot, Ahorseback: Swiftness and Mobility in the Mongol Yuan Conquest

of Song China, 1274-1279,” in Leidschrift Historisch Tijdschrift / in De invloed van steppevolkeren: Mongools juk of Pax Mongolica 30.1 (2015): 65-77.

2014 “Chasing Sunflowers: Personal Firsthand Observations of the Student Occupation

of the Legislative Yuan and Popular Protests in Taiwan, 18 March - 10 April 2014,” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 15.4 (2014) http://www.jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/574/554

2014 “China’s Growing Interest in the Arctic.” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies

15.2 (2013) http://www.jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/528 2013 “Debates in the Field During Bayan’s Campaigns Against Southern Song China,

1274-1276.” In Peter A. Lorge, ed., Debating War in Chinese History (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 141-62.

2012 “The Northern Frontier,” in David A. Graff and Robin Higham, eds., A Military

History of China, Updated Edition (University of Kentucky Press, 2012), pp. 57-79. Slightly updated version of the same chapter published in 2002.

2012 “The American Romance of Revolution: American Women Observers of the

Chinese Communists, 1920s-1940s.” Women’s Studies Journal 1.1 (2012): 1035 (lead article). http://www.womenstudiesjournal.org/

2012 “A Chinese Princess Bride’s Life and Activism among the Eastern Türks, 580-593

CE.” Journal of Asian History 45.1 (2011):39-48. (Republication of 2008 article) 2011 “The Panda Bear Readies to Meet the Polar Bear: China and Canada’s Arctic

Sovereignty Challenge.” Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, February 2011.

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2009 “Yü Yingshi dui Xiongnu Yanjiu di Gongxian” 余英時對匈奴研究的貢獻 [“Yü Ying-shih’s Contributions to Xiongnu Studies”]. In Hoyt Tillman, ed., Wenhua yu Lishi di Zhuisuo 文化與歷史的追索: 余英時教授八秩壽慶論文集 [In Pursuit of History and Culture: Festschrift for Professor Yü Ying-shih for his Eightieth Birthday ] (Taipei: Lianjing, 2010): 327-37.

2009 “In Memory of Denis Crispin Twitchett.” Asia Major 22.1 (2009): v-vi. 2008 “A Chinese Princess Bride’s Life and Activism Among the Eastern Türks, 580-593

CE.” In Altayistik Konferansi Bildirileri (Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 2007): 463-71.

2007 “Navies in the Mongol Yuan Conquest of Southern Song China, 1274-1279.”

Mongolian Studies v. 29 (2007): 207-16. 2007 "The Political and Military Power of Kitan Empress Dowagers." In Veronika Veit,

ed., The Role of Women in the Altaic World (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007): 325-35.

2007 "Professor Denis C. Twitchett and His Books" (pamphlet). Taipei: Institute of

History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 2007. (Bilingual publication in English and Chinese)

2006 "From Honoured Mound of Bones to Neglected Mound of Refuse: The Mass Burial

Site of Anti-Mongol Loyalists in Yuqiao Village, Jiangsu Province, China." Chronica: Annual of the Institute of History, Szeged (Hungary), v. 5 (2005):114-24.

2005 "Artillery is not Needed to Cross a River: Bayan's Swift Riparian Campaigns Against the Southern Song Chinese, 1274-1276." In B. V. Bazarov et al, eds., Mongol'skaia Imperiia i Kochevoi Mir. Ulan-Ude (Buryatia, Siberia, Russia): Izdatelstvo Buriatskogo Nauchnogo Tsentra SO RAN. ISBN 5-7925-0066-5.

2005 "Nomadic Power, Sedentary Security, and the Crossbow." Acta Orientalia 28.1

(2005): 15-31. 2002 "The Mongol General Bayan and the Massacre of Changzhou, 1275.” Altaica

(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) 7 (2002):108-21. 2002 "The Northern Frontier," in David Graff and Robin Higham, eds., A Military

History of China (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002), 57-79. 2002 "The Screed of a Humbled Empire: The Xin Tangshu's Prolegomena on the Türks."

Acta Orientalia 55.4 (2002):379-89.

6 2001 "What's in a Name: Would a Hsiung-nu by Any Other Name Still be a Hun?" In

David B. Honey and David C. Wright, eds., Altaic Affinities: Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC)

2000 "Mongolian Studies in Ch'ing China (1644-1912)." Mongolica: An International

Annual of Mongol Studies 10 (31) (2000):489-94. 1999 "Was Chinggis Khan Literate?” In Juha Janhunen, ed., Writing in the Altaic World

(Studia Orientalia 87) (Helsinki: The Finnish Oriental Society, 1999), 305-12. 1998 "The Papers of Professor Francis Woodman Cleaves." Journal of Sung-Yuan

Studies 28 (1998):284-91. 1998 "The Sung-Kitan War of A.D. 1004-1005 and the Treaty of Shan-yüan." Journal

of Asian History 32 (1998): 3-48. 1997 "The Hsiung-nu - Hun Equation Revisited." Eurasian Studies Yearbook 69

(1997):77-112. 1997 "The Death of Chinggis Khan in Mongolian, Chinese, Persian, and European

Sources." In Árpád Berta, ed., Historical and Linguistic Interaction Between Inner Asia and Europe (Szeged, Hungary: University of Szeged, 1997), 425-33. Translations published in Elüng Bütügel (Hailar, Inner Mongolia: Nei Menggu Wenhua Chubanshe, 1997), 1-7 (lead article in a book of 606 pages) and Biriyat Ünen (official government newspaper of Biriyatia, Russia), 16 April 1997, p. 6 (full-page feature).

1996 "Parity, Pedigree, and Peace: Routine Sung Diplomatic Missives to the Liao."

Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies 26 (1996):55-85. 1995 "A Note on Sung Diplomatic Institutions." In Ch'en Chieh-hsien, ed., Ch'ing chu Cha-ch'i Ssu-ch'in Chiao-shou Pa-shih Shou-ch'en Hsüeh-shu Lun wen-chi [Festschrift volume for Professor Sechin Jagchid's eightieth birthday], 491-503. Taipei: Lien-ching, 1995. 1994 "Gong Zizhen and His Essay on the 'Western Regions.'" In Edward H. Kaplan and

Donald W. Whisenhunt, eds., Opuscula Altaica: Essays Presented in Honor of Henry Schwarz. Bellingham, Washington: Western Washington University, 1994, 655-85.

Other articles and comments (media)

7 2017 “Canada Cares About Rights.” Calgary Herald, 15 July 2017.

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/calgary-herald/20170715/281930248027682 2016 Menggu da caoyuan: lingren wangwo di leyuan 蒙古大草原: 令人忘我的樂園

[The Great Grasslands of Mongolia: A Paradise to Lose yourself in]. Singtao Daily 星島日報 , 29 September 2016, A10. http://calgary.singtao.ca/Magazine/SingTao_Canadian_City_Post/index.html

2014 “Rumours of war in East Asia.” iPolitics, 8 December 2014.

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/12/08/the-winds-of-war-are-blowing-in-east-asia 2014 “Seeking Natural Resources.” WWF [World Wildlife Fund] Magazine The Circle,

No. 3 (September 2014): Asia in the Arctic http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/circle_0314_asia_web.pdf

2014 “China in the Arctic,” oral interview for Hong Kong radio programme “China

Takes Over the World,” hosted and presented by Ying Ma, 26 July 2014. http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/china_takes_over&d=2014-07-26&p=6185&e=271141&m=episode

2014 Interviewed by Cameron Frecklington for his article “China Jostles for Pole

Position” in China Outlook: Focusing on China’s Future, 13 May 2014 http://china-outlook.net/china-jostles-for-pole-position/ 2012 “Looking at the US-Japan Relationship Through Open Eyes.” The Dispatch

(Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute), Fall 2012, page 12. http://www.cdfai.org.previewmysite.com/newsletters/Dispatch%20-%20Fall%202012.pdf

2012 “Wright: There’s Plenty at Stake in Feud Over Asian Islands.” Calgary Herald, 19

September 2012. http://www2.canada.com/opinion/editorials/editorial+superstorm+sandy+shatters+complacency/7485544/story.html?id=7268654&p=2

2012 “Claiming the Arctic: China’s Posturing Becomes Ever Clearer." DefenseNews, 1

July 2012. http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120701/DEFFEAT05/307010006/Claiming-Arctic

2012 “Tingshuo Jiantizi…” 聽說簡體字… [On Simplified Chinese Characters…].

Singtao Daily 星島日報, 16 March 2012, 3. http://news.singtao.ca/calgary/2012-03-16/province1331893858d3757357.html

8 Academic papers, presentations, and lectures 2018 Attended in person a meeting on Arctic affairs held at the Council on Foreign

Relations (Harold Pratt House) in New York City, Thursday 15 March 2018. 2018 “‘Traduttore tradittore’? Is the Translator a Traitor? Translating the Song of

Everlasting Sorrow.” Presentation to the Alberta Chinese Zither Association / Alberta Chinese Fine Arts Academy, 17 March 2018.

2016 “Song Foreign Relations.” Invited class lecture for Asian Studies 410 (International

Relations in Premodern East Asia) at the University of British Columbia, 29 September 2016.

2016 “Cavalry, infantry, artillery, and navy in the final years of the Mongol conquest of

China, 1275-1279.” Invited public lecture for the One Asia Forum Talk Series, University of British Columbia, 29 September 2016.

2016 “The Jindandao Massacre of Mongols in the Josutu and Juu Uda Leagues, 1891.”

Paper given at the Eleventh International Congress of Mongolists (15-18 August 2016), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 17 August 2016.

2015 “A Big Baby Republic: James Wheeler Davidson’s book and newspaper coverage

of the Taiwan Republic,” talk given in Chinese at “War and Society Conference,” National Museum of Taiwan History, Tainan, Taiwan, 16 August 2015

2014 “Trailing Tibet and Finding Formosa: James Wheeler Davidson's Unintentional

Entry into Taiwan Studies, 1895.” Paper read at conference “Blossoming into Mosaics: International Conference on Personal Vicissitudes amid the Encounters of Civilizations and Peoples,” organised and hosted by the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 15 November 2014. (Given in Chinese)

2014 "The White Terror in Taiwan," presentation to the Chinese Communist Party

History Teaching and Research Section at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 中共中央黨校中共黨史教研部, Beijing, China, 4 April 2014. (Given in Chinese)

2014 “Historical Stages of China’s Interest in Arctic Affairs,” presentation to the Law

and Politics School at the Ocean University of China 中國海洋大學法政學院 in Qingdao, Shandong, China, 1 April 2014. (Given in Chinese)

9 2012 “China’s Arctic Interests,” paper read at the Arctic Order Conference (sponsored by

the University of Southern Denmark’s Center for War Studies and the Nordic International Studies Association) in Odense, Denmark, 5 November 2012.

2012 “China and the Arctic,” paper read in Brussels in the Swedish government offices

at the Forum for Arctic Climate Change and Security Workshop: Military and Paramilitary Collaboration in the Arctic” (Sponsored by The International Institute for Strategic Studies), 18 October 2012. Précis of paper available at http://www.iiss.org/events-calendar/2012-events-archive/october-2012/military-and-paramilitary-collaboration-in-the-arctic/

2011 “The Logic of China’s Claims to ‘Rights and Interests’ in the Arctic.” Paper read

at international conference Canada, U.S. and China Maritime Security Issues: The Arctic and the South China Sea: Sharpened Competition or Collaboration?, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta), 22 September 2011.

2011 "Meanings of Feasting Among the Khitans and Mongols." Paper read at the

fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), 13 July 2011.

2011 “Khubilai Khan’s Approach to Conquering Southern China: A Sino-Mongolian

Strategic Synthesis.” Paper read at the Calgary Workshop on the History of Strategy, University of Calgary, 7 July 2011.

2011 “China's 'Rights and Interests' in the Arctic: Original Source Analysis of

Chinese-language Academic Journal Articles, 2009-2010." Paper read at the workshop “Geopolitics of the North Pacific Rim,” Ottawa, Canada, 8-9 April 2011.

2011 Chair and discussant, Panel One, “Defenders and Contenders of Self-Identity in

Chinese Historiography,” sponsored by Chinese Historians in the United States, 1 April 2011. (Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii.)

2011 “The Panda Bear Readies to Meet the Polar Bear: China Debates and Formulates

Foreign Policy Towards Arctic Affairs and Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty.” Paper read at Calgary Country Club to the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, Calgary, 9 February 2011. Talk can be heard here: http://www.cdfai.org/MP3/David%20Wright%20Talk%20%289%20Feb%2011%29.mp3

2010 Invited participant, Global Shipping Game, 8-9 December 2010, conducted by the

War Gaming Department of the United States Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.

10 2009 "All the Khan's Ships: The Battle of Yaishan between Chinese and Mongol Navies,

1279." Lecture delivered at the United States Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island), 15 December 2009.

2008 “Mediaeval Chinese and European Strategy, Tactics, and Weaponry for Fending off

Nomadic Incursions.” Paper read at the 75th annual conference of the Society for Military History, Ogden, Utah, 18 April 2008.

2006 "Taffy III at Leyte Gulf: An Investigation of Historical Credit," Panel A5: "New

Wine from Old Records: Sources and Reinterpretations in Military History." Paper read at the 73rd annual meeting of the Society for Military History, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 19 May 2006.

2005 "Fictitious Kinship Relations Between the Song Chinese and Kitan Liao Ruling

Houses During the Eleventh Century." Paper read at the 48th annual meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference in Moscow, Russia, 12 July 2005.

2005 "Irredentisms Forsaken: Key Song and Liao Concessions During the Peace

Negotiations of 1004-1005." Paper read at the Chinese Military History Society Annual Conference "Terminating Conflict in Chinese History: Military, Political, Diplomatic, and Ritual Dimensions," 28 May 2005, University of Calgary. Conference organised and hosted by myself.

2004 "Nomadic Power and Sedentary Security." Paper read 14 May 2004 in Szeged,

Hungary at the First International Conference on the Medieval History of the Eurasian Steppe, organised by the Division for Linguistics and Literatures of the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the University of Szeged.

2004 "Bayan's Campaigns on the Han and Yangtze Rivers, 1273-1276." Paper read at the

118th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., Panel #164, "Issues in Thirteenth-century Conflict: Combat and Gunpowder Technology East and West," 11 January 2004.

2003 "Dealing with the Nomadic Threat: Strategic and Tactical Recommendations in

Chinese, Byzantine, and Western European Sources." Paper read as a guest lecturer to the Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 20 November 2003.

2003 "A Chinese Princess Bride’s Life and Acculturation Among the Eastern Türks,

580-593 CE." Paper read at the 46th annual meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference in Ankara, Turkey, June 2003.

11 2003 "Ultra-nationalism in China." Paper read at Strategy 2025: DDA Consultation (a

formal consultative meeting of academics and military officers from Canada's Directorate of Defence Analysis, national Defence), University of Calgary, 2 June 2003. Sponsored and hosted by the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary.

2002 "Bayan's Campaigns on the Han and Yangtze Rivers." Paper read at the annual

meeting of the Chinese Military History Society, 11 May 2002, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

2001 "The Political and Military Power of Kitan Empress Dowagers." Paper read at the

44th annual meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference in Walberberg, Germany, August 2001.

2001 "Bayan and the Massacre of Changzhou." Paper read at the Society for Military

History Annual Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 26 May 2001.

2000 "Identifying with the Revolution: Helen Foster Snow and Other American Women

Observers of the Chinese Communists." Paper read at "Helen Foster Snow, Witness to Revolution: A Symposium," Brigham young University, Provo, Utah, 26 October 2000.

1998 "The Sung-Liao Border: Demarcations and Considerations." Paper read for panel

"Place, Territory, and Landscape in Sung China" at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington, D.C., 28 March 1998.

1998 "Was Chinggis Khan Literate?" Plenary session paper read at the 41st annual

meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference in Helsinki, Finland, 6 July 1998.

1997 "What's in a Name? Would a Hsiung-nu by Any Other Name Still be a Hun?"

Paper read at the 40th annual meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference in Provo, Utah, 3 June 1997.

1996 "The Death of Chinggis Khan." Paper read at the 39th annual meeting of the

Permanent International Altaistic Conference in Szeged, Hungary, June 1996. 1997 "Funerary Ritual in Sung-Liao Diplomacy." Paper read at the conference "Life and

Death in Imperial China" in February 1996 at Brigham Young University. 1995 "(Discordant?) Notes on the Great Wall of China." Paper read in November 1995

at Brigham Young University for the Imperial Tombs of China Lecture Series.

12 1990 "The Hsiung-nu, the Huns, and the West." Paper read at the Mellon Seminar on

Nationalism, Princeton University, October 1990. Published reviews 2015 Review of Paul M. Evans, Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in

Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper. UTP Insights. In Pacific Affairs 88.3 (September 2015): 692-94.

2014 Review of Peter Lorge, Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-first

Century. In Journal of Asian Studies 73.4 (November 2014):1111-12. http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2F1560_4E9CBEB93CE07857D2AA497B5746A0B3_journals__JAS_JAS73_04_S002191181400120Xa.pdf&cover=Y&code=313c91110ea579f76cb278dbfe6e39fd

2012 Review of Yuan-kang Wang, Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese

Power Politics. In The China Review 12.1 (2012). http://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/ojs/index.php/ChinaReview/article/viewArticle/3419/4572

2011 Review of Nicola Di Cosmo, ed., Military Culture in Imperial China. In Journal

of Asian Studies 70.2 (2011): 517-18. 2011 Review of Nicola Di Cosmo, ed., Military Culture in Imperial China. In Hanxue

Yanjiu 漢學研究 29.1 (March 2011):313-15. (Review in Chinese) 2010 Review of William T. Rowe, China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing. In The

International History Review 32.3 (September 2010): 547-48. 2009 Review of James P. Delgado, Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet. In Mongolian Studies 31

(2009):315-19.

2008 Review of Linfu Dong, Cross Culture and Faith: The Life and Work of James Mellon Menzies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), in University of Toronto Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2008):332-34.

2008 Review of Naomi Standen, Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossings in Liao China.

In The Journal of Asian Studies 67 (2008):1088-89. 2006 “Mao: The Inadequate Story”; review article of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao:

The Unknown Story. In Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 9.1 (Fall 2006). www.jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/download/126/138

13 2005 Review of Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

In Chinese Military History Society Newsletter Number 9, November 2005. 2004 Review of S. C. M. Paine, The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions,

Power, and Primacy. In The International History Review XXVI.3 (September 2004): 640-42.

2004 Review of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11." In Journal of Military and

Strategic Studies (http://www.jmss.org/2004/fall/multimediareview3.htm), Fall 2004.

2004 Review of Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the

Bounty. In Journal of Military and Strategic Studies (http://www.jmss.org/2004/spring/index2.htm), Spring 2004.

2003 Long review article (approx. 11,000 words) of Nicola Di Cosmo, ed., Warfare in

Inner Asian History (500-1800). In Chinese Military History Society Newsletter 4 (May 2003; Internet publication).

2002 Review of Beverly J. Bossler, Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, & the State in

Sung China (960-1279). In Journal of Asian History 36.1 (2002): 110-11.

2001 Review of Jin Qiu, The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution. In Canadian Journal of History 36 (December 2001):626-28.

2001 Review of Margaret Megodaeff-Tomsik, Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora

Howard King. In Canadian Journal of History 36 (August 2001):407-09. 2001 Review of Norman Cantor, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. In Pacific

Affairs 74.2 (Summer 2001):385-87. 2000 Review of Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia. In The International History

Review 23.2 (Summer 2001):249-50. 2000 Review of Ann Paludan, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign

Record of the Rulers of Imperial China. In Journal of Asian History 34.1 (2000):82-84.

1999 Review of Juha Janhunen, Manchuria: An Ethnic History. In Journal of Asian

Studies 58.3 (1999):830-33. 1999 Review of Pan Yihong, Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang China and

Its Neighbors. In Journal of Asian Studies 58.4 (1999):1117-18.

14 1995 Review of Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth. In The American Asian Review 13.3 (Fall 1995): 134-47. Encyclopaedia entries 2008 “Chinese Foreign Relations,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to

Present (Oxford University Press, 2008). 2005 "Gunpowder," Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia

(New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2005), 210-13. 2001 "Submarines, U.S.," World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (New York:

Garland, 2001), 561-62. 2000 "Gunpowder," Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An

Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2000), 242-43. 2000 "Kara Kitai," Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia

(New York: Garland, 2000), 316. Textbooks 1998 Peoples of the Steppe: Historical Sources on the Pastoral Nomads of Eurasia

(Needham Heights, Mass.: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing). 1995 Resource Guide for the Imperial Tombs of China. Provo: Museum of Art, Brigham

Young University. Translations 2017 Waves of the Blue River: Survival and Triumph through One of History’s Greatest

Crimes in China, by Li Mu (translation). Charleston, Scout Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. (ISBN-10: 197933160X; ISBN-13: 978-1979331609)

2000 "Mountain Fortress Defence: The Experience of the Southern Song and Korea in

Resisting the Mongol Invasions." In Hans van de Ven, ed., Warfare in Chinese History (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 222-51.

1997 Chinese Fables, vols. 2 and 3 (translation). Taipei: Overseas Chinese Affairs

Commission.

15 1995 "Trends in Sung Historical Studies in Taiwan and Mainland China" (translation).

Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies 25 (1995):265-302. 1993 The Sui, T'ang, and the Five Dynasties: Stories from Chinese History (translation).

Taipei: Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission. AWARDS, HONOURS, FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 9 August

– 11 September 2015; 2014 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, January

– April 2014. 2014 Research Grant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan.

Award covered all transportation and living expenses for three months and a week of intensive research on the persecution of dissident intellectuals during Taiwan’s White Terror period in Taiwan (1949-1987).

2006 Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan,

August-December 2006 2006 Research Grant, Center for Chinese Studies, Taiwan

Award covered all transportation and living expenses for four months of intensive research on the Mongol conquest of China.

2002 Distinguished Teacher Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Calgary

2002 Elected Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society, Royal Asiatic Society, London, England 1987-1991 Jacob Javits Fellow, U.S. Department of Education

The Javits fellowship provides full-tuition payments and living expenses of $10,000 per year for four years. Javits fellowships are awarded annually on a nationwide, competitive basis to approximately fifty beginning graduate students.

1987 Valedictorian, Department of History, Brigham Young University

Award included a cash prize.

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Sechin Jagchid Award for Best Paper in Non-Western or Third World History, Department of History, Brigham Young University.

Award included a cash prize.

1984 Speech contest winner, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Placed in a Mandarin Chinese speech competition held on November 12, 1984 in honour of Sun Yat-sen in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Award included a cash prize. Portions of my speech were published in the Central Daily News (Chung-yang Jih-pao) and played on national television in Taiwan.

Last revised: 12 June 2018